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Damien Hirst (Artist)

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

— Damien Hirst suicide

I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

— Damien Hirst life

Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

— Damien Hirst time

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

— Damien Hirst history

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

— Damien Hirst art

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

— Damien Hirst life

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

— Damien Hirst you

Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.

— Damien Hirst self

The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

— Damien Hirst pain

Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.

— Damien Hirst art

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

— Damien Hirst life

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

— Damien Hirst fear

Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

— Damien Hirst people

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

— Damien Hirst life

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

— Damien Hirst art

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.

— Damien Hirst pain

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

— Damien Hirst read

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

— Damien Hirst art

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

— Damien Hirst art

When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

— Damien Hirst age

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

— Damien Hirst world

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

— Damien Hirst think

When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.

— Damien Hirst pain

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

— Damien Hirst art

You need a big ego to be an artist.

— Damien Hirst art

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because its bad, its really simple.

— Damien Hirst suicide

Sometimes when youre drunk you can see better.

— Damien Hirst time

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